Testimony of Healing July 8, 1996 Issue

One morning as I stepped from bed, pain shot through my...

Lacy Bell Richter

One morning as I stepped from bed, pain shot through my body, and my right leg became unmanageable and very painful. I clearly recall the sense of security in God, Spirit, that enveloped me. I sat quietly and prayed to deepen this awareness of God's presence until I was conscious of the Christ-power, which is always ready to meet the human need. I was thoroughly convinced that God, good, doesn't afflict or deprive. Crippling is impossible to God, Truth. So God's idea (my true self) is never prone to loss of normal action. This difficulty was only an attempt of evil to keep me from doing my normal daily work; and I resisted this imposition, knowing from experience that evil must be met mentally—destroyed in consciousness through Truth, God.

Although this happened several years ago, I clearly recall my sense of God's mothering presence. In a short time, I stood and found that I could walk, even though the leg felt wooden. I continued to pray to gain the certainty in my thought that God is the one cause and that I am the spiritual effect of His perfect, uninterruptible knowing. Man's oneness with God can't be severed, and God continuously regulates what He creates. Man's true being is never less than God's self-manifestation. Nothing can obstruct or impair God's reflection, because God is infinite being, the only Life. Christ Jesus proved God's supremacy in all human conditions when he said to the woman who'd been crippled for eighteen years, "Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity" (Luke 13:12). I rejoiced that the same Christ-spirit acts today to free mind and body from bondage.

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